Menu Plan Monday – June 1, 2009

Head over to Laura’s for Menu Plan Monday. The Gluten Free Menu Swap is being hosted by Gluten Free Goodness. She has chosen seasonal fruits! I am still going to have to pick up my asparagus at the farmer’s market and store this year and next BUT I did plant 25 asparagus plants this spring and can’t wait until I can harvest them. I am very excited about it! Asparagus is even something my littlest picky girl eats (she calls it Junior, as in Veggie Tales, and gleefully bites off his head). And strawberries? We love them here. I am planning on getting them in my garden next year (I garden in baby steps and add only so much a year to keep it in my time and money budget). I am planning on making a fruit juice sweetened strawberry rhubarb jam this week to take advantage of my big crop of rhubarb and to stretch out the strawberries from the market. Plus, they are so yummy together. I will be harvesting the first salad from my garden this week, also, which is always a big deal for me.

Hope you all have a great week! Come back on Friday for Gluten Free-zer Friday!

Other things for the week: make 30 cupcakes and frost with a music theme for piano recital, make strawberry rhubarb jam (fruit juice sweetened), make coconut orange white fudge, make new batch of kimchee, make pie crust and freeze ahead for birthday pie, add dirt to my asparagus and potatoes, weed and divide more plants, make chive blossom vinegar, etc, etc….